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Re: Maher and friends on socialism
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The right to life and the right to property are intimately connected. A "free" man who is prevented from owning what he has built, made, or earned is not a free man.

Slavery is when someone's labor and mind are owned by another person without their consent. African-Americans in the years following the Civil War damn well knew how important property rights were.

When the other side says their principles say they can take what I have earned, while my principles say I have the right to keep what I have earned, do you see the difference? These principles are not equivalent, or balanced, or two sides of the same coin. My principles demand nothing of the other side except to be left alone. Their principles demand my life and wealth, leaving me whatever they see fit, or nothing. Yet today wealth redistribution is considered the highest moral imperative in many places. Justified by what? That there are more people who want to take the wealth than there are producers?

A right to loot, but no right to property?

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